The everything block chain approach loses steam.
Actions speak louder than words. Everytime.
Its pretty cool to see the merchants and other members of the Nostr community start to offer great value in exchange for bitcoin.
Crazy thing is, I don't think most of us know just how much this is affecting the future of the economy just as AI is making its debut. nostr:naddr1qq2kuv2d8ycxgur9ferrv52kx3exsv6rtyu8gq3qcs7kmc77gcapuh2s3yn0rc868sckh0qam7p5p4t9ku88rfjcx95sxpqqqp65w9zyvch
This is so important to remember. Ying yang of existence ☯️
Just the same, there are seasons for war 💪 and seasons for peace 🏖, nature operates this way and it stands to serve one well in life as well.
There are seasons to sprint, sweat, bleed while giving it your all with an objective in mind to achieve.
There are seasons to sit and listen to the wind as your heart calms and your arms embrace your loved ones just cherishing the moment.
Good luck on your learning journey. Its worth it, you'll gain skills that will serve you for life.
Im no pro either and have a ton to learn. Start9 is a cool starter option but outside of bitcoin related hosting services you miss out on services available to other server operating systems.... but with those come more expensive paths as well.
That's one of the "selling points" made by the big corporations when encountering people thinking of self-hosting. Not everyone wants to deal with the hassle of self-hosting, but I strongly believe this "hassle-free" approach is causing people never to question who truly owns their data.
The beauty of self-hosting is that you decide the level of security and redundancy. Depending on your comfort level, budget, and the risk factors in your geographical location, you can select the setup that makes the most sense for you.
In my case, I live in Florida, so the likelihood of a hurricane is high (potential for water and wind damage). However, Florida is large and my parents live in a different town about 3 hours away, so I can have a NAS at my parents and my server at my place.
You can have local backups like in a RAID set up for your drives (in case the physical drive goes bad) and then have a redundant NAS located at someone else's house in your family (parents/kids/best friend).
If I wanted to be extremely secure, I could set up a NAS at my brother's house in Seattle across the country.
Ultimately, what you start realizing when you self-host is just how much of what you think is digitally "yours" actually isn't.
Illiteracy.
Contrary to what you may believe, it's about more than just knowing how to read. That is one of two definitions for Illiteracy. The second definition is more illustrative of the truth surrounding us today: lack of knowledge in a particular subject; ignorance.
Literacy is a standard that moves with the times.
If we are going to track literacy rates in society, we should track the body of knowledge pertinent to the era. This is what determines the layperson's ability to meaningfully interact with society.
Who then knows how money works?
Who then knows what happens to data when it is created and stored?
Who then knows how labor and markets interact?
Good time to stack sats. Get after it!
There are so many great options available now with umbrel, start9, citadel, plus os load able nas, even standard servers all help meet you where your budget is.
I went down this path because I currently have about 1TB of data in just photos of my family and kids. Thats only going to grow and ive noticed Google, Microsoft, and Apple all have raised their prices and lowered their data limits for their tired offerings. I mean practically speaking I saw the writing on the wall.
I've been sucked into the rabbit hole of self hosting.
I got a start9 because it pulled on my heart strings right when I was looking for a solution to store all my family pictures that were starting to build up.
After installing it and seeing everything that I can do with self hosting I've finally pulled the wool from over my eyes and realized that, in this digital age, I own very little of what I've paid for.
The big tech companies want you to spend money and own nothing. Everything lives in their "ecosystems".
The masses are lured by convenience and stay because of the difficulty of changing their ways.
The nature of data today is that it is ever growing.
I buy a book on Amazon, it lives in Amazon Kindle, on amazon's server. I paid for the right to look at the words on the pages but I don't own the book.
I buy a movie, its hosted by whichever company I just bought it from. I paid to watch the pictures on the screen but I don't own the movie. My own pictures and words and business intelligence, those start free until I have enough of a hoard of data that I'd PAY for someone to ensure it was secure.
The dystopia is here, its already happening and no one is paying attention.
It's crazy that it took me until just now to realize this.
Its crazy how big tech has geared society to fall into their cloud computing ecosystems.
Exciting what sources are there for us to read more on this?
Good morning. I hope your bars are imbued with more love and care than yesterday and everyone lives one more day as excellent as they can.
Monopoly with cbdcs. Roll a 5 you can't buy anything this turn the government has frozen your cash.
Good morning brother! Keep those hodl bars churning!
Trump is pulling out all the stops. He has a Hail Mary for almost everything effecting the USA
Lol! 🤣😂🫠 delicious
In the USA: I've had the pleasure of living in the south east coast- "low country" this includes places like Charleston, Hilton Head, and Savannah. Place is loaded with culture from the food to the way people live with their local Geography.
I was born and raised in Miami, a culture melting pot of Latin America and Caribbean culture that quite literally seeps out of corner store shops and steroes.
Thing is, culture is local. Its intertwined with the earth and the things the people in that area create. Its the OG social algorithm.
Zoom out and "national" culture might seem to be getting washed out as nations blend like a massive tie dye on the internet.
But that tie die is whipping out new micro niche cultures every day.
Yes, there is very much culture left and growing in my opinion.